The sun has gone wrong and scientists don’t know why

By Brett Carter, Senior Research Fellow, RMIT University, Alexa Halford, Researcher in Physics and Astronomy, Dartmouth College, and Julie Currie, Research Officer, RMIT University. A huge solar flare flashes in the middle of the sun on Sept. 6, 2017. A separate image of the Earth provides scale. NASA/GSFC/SDO, CC BY If you still have your solar…